
'Homeland would've been stolen': AK Natives sound off on Biden energy bans as Trump officials tour tundra
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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Energy Secretary Chris Wright visit North Slope as locals express gratitude for protecting development opportunities.
Charles Creitz is a reporter for Fox News Digital.
Charles Lamp, a Native resident of Kaktovik – the main remote community within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) a few hundred miles eastward – said until President Donald Trump and the officials assembled in Utqiagvik took office, North Slope residents and their energy development hopes felt besieged by that same far-flung federal government. He joined Fox News in 2013 as a writer and production assistant.
Lamp voiced similar concerns to those Fox News Digital had been told in the past by Alaska officials, in that environmental activists in the Lower 48 and federal officials who ideologically align with them have tried speaking for them in opposition to developing ANWR and other sites where none of those same activists live. Charles covers media, politics and culture for Fox News Digital.